Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1912 — DEMOCRATS SWEEP COUNTRY; WILSON AND MARSHALL WIN [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS SWEEP COUNTRY; WILSON AND MARSHALL WIN

Veritable Landslide for Both State and National Tickets in Nearly Every Commonwealth. TAFT IS POOR THIRD President Is Successful in But Three or Four States— Loses Ohio. ROOSEVELT CARRIES FIVE Electoral Votes of Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Washington Will Be Cast for Progressive Nominee—Result Is Known Early and Successful Candidate Soon Retires. The following table gives the electoral vote of the states from which sufficient returns have been received to make the result practically definite: State. Dem. Rep. Pro. Alabama 12 Arizona 5 Arkansas 9 ~ ~ California 13 Colorado 6 Connecticut 7 Delaware 3 Florida 6 Georgia 14 Idaho 4 Illinois .. 29 Indiana 15 lowa ........... .. 13 Kansas ... 10 Kentucky 15 Louisiana 10 Maine . 6 Maryland 8 Massachusetts 18 Michigan .. 15 Minnesota 12 .. Mississippi 10 ftfissouri 18 Montana .. .« Nebraska 8 Nevada 3

New Hampshire .. 4 .. New Jersey ......... 14 .. New Mexico 3 New York ........... 45 .. .. North Carolina 12 .. North Dakota 5 Ohio 24 Oklahoma 10 Oregon 5 Pennsylvania .......... ». 38 Rhode Island 5 South Carolina 10 South Dakota .. > .. 5 Tennessee 12 Texas 20 Utah .. 4 Vermont ..

Virginia .. . t .. Washington .. 7 West Virginia 8 . - .« Wisconsin 13 .. . «■ Electoral votes necessary to a choice, 266. N. J., Nov. 6.—At 6:30 o’clock last evening Chairman WU< Ham F. McCombs of the Democratic national committee was so confident of Gov. Woodrow Wilson’s election that he wired the governor that he had not only been elected president of the United States but that the Democrats had a working majority in both the United States senate and the house of representatives. The message stated that the returns from the eastern states made it certain that the Democratic leader was victorious even should the western states that had not been heard from at that hour should give their electoral votes to the governor’s opponents. The governor retired shortly before midnight feeling assured that he would occupy the White House for the next four years. At 9:40 Governor Wilson received a message from New York announcing he had carried a sufficient number of states from which returns had. been received to assure his election beyond any possibility of guesswork, the states with their electoral votes being: Alabama 12, Arkansas 9, Connecticut 7, Florida 6, Georgia 14, Indiana 15, Kentucky 13, Louisiana 10, New York 45, North Carolina 12, South Carolina 9, Tennessee 12, Texas 20, Virginia 12, Missouri 18, New Jersey 14. A total of 270 electoral votes out of 531, or four more than a majority. Surprised* at Socialist's Vote. As the returns were received during the evening Governor Wilson evinced more Interest in the race between President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt than in the figures indicating his own election. He watched particularly the returns from the manufacturing state of Massachusetts and from New York. Several tlnfes during the evening he asked for returns on the Socialistic ticket, and expressed surprise at the showing made by Mr. Debs in Chicago and »ther large cities, and received the Igures Indicating Colonel Roosevelt’s plurality in Illinois with a smile, but without any particular commentShortly after ten o’clock, when both parties were claiming the state of Pennsylvania, the governor expressed; the wish that that state might be* tdded to the Democratic column, and. the belief that it would be. Receives Congratulations. Congratulatory telegrams began, arriving almost as soon as the polls closed. They came from Democratic leaders from all over the country,* and were still being received long after the successful candidate had retired. He has spent a considerable portion of today reading these and replying to a portion of them. Statement by Wilson.

New York, Nov. 6.—“ A great cause' has triumphed,” was President-elect Wilson’s message to Chairman McCombs, In reply to a telegram sent by the man who has so skillfully managed the campaign of the New Jersey gov-i ernor. Governor Wilson’s message . said: “A great cause has triumphed., Every Democrat and every true Progressive of whatever alliance must now lend his full force and enthusiasm to the fulfillment of the people’s hope—the establishment of the people’s rights." In his telearam to Governor Wilson,

Chairman McCombs told him that he had won a significant victory, having received the largest electoral vote •▼er given a presidential candidate. Colonel Congratulates Winner. Among the congratulatory telegrams received, and the one in which Governor Wilson took the greatest interest, was the following from Colonel Roosevelt, which reached Princeton just before midnight: “The American people by a great plurality have conferred on you the highest honor in their gift. I congratulate you.—Theodore Roosevelt.”